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Judge revokes teen's bond in armed robbery case

A Richmond teenager was put in jail this week when his bond was revoked in a robbery case.

Bradley Leverette, 19, of the 300 block of South 11th Street was booked in just after 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Wayne County Jail. He had been free since posting $1,500 bond May 5 for a Level 3 felony robbery charge.

The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office filed a motion March 1 to revoke Leverette's bond, citing two convictions since he was released from custody. The first was Aug. 8 for misdemeanor resisting law enforcement and the second was Feb. 27 for misdemeanor carrying a handgun without a license.

The motion noted both convictions involved a firearm. The resisting arrest occurred after Leverette fled on foot from a vehicle that had been stopped by a Richmond Police Department officer. A witness accused Leverette of pointing and firing a pistol through the vehicle's sunroof.

Leverette's robbery trial is scheduled for June 5. He is accused of being one of three men who maced a man and took his Xbox game system and games last April at Dollar General, according to an affidavit of probable cause. The victim had arranged a meeting with the men to sell the items.

Tyrus Bell and Jerelle Craig have trials scheduled for June 12 in Wayne County Superior Court II. Each also is charged with Level 3 robbery in the case.

Rhonda R. Turner(Photo: Supplied)

Woman serves neglect sentence

Also this week in Wayne County courts, Rhonda R. Turner, 46, was released after nine months in the Wayne County Jail after receiving her sentence on a Level 5 felony neglect charge.

Turner pleaded guilty to neglect in accordance with a plea agreement that she had reached with the prosecution, which in turn dismissed Level 5 felony charges of dealing methamphetamine and conspiring to deal methamphetamine. Turner was sentenced to three years of incarceration with two suspended to probation.

She was credited with serving nine months from her June 22 arrest, fulfilling her executed sentence. Because she was convicted of a Level 5 felony, she accrued one day of good time for every three days served, meaning she had to serve nine months of the year sentence.

Turner, who had two previous misdemeanor convictions, was accused of having a 16-year-old dependent in a residence where methamphetamine was being manufactured by Travis K. Durham. She also had been accused of purchasing pseudoephedrine for Durham's use in manufacturing meth.

The Indiana State Police Meth Suppression Team served a search warrant at a home in the 300 block of West Parkway Drive in Cambridge City where Turner resided. The search located a meth lab and evidence of meth production.

Durham previously pleaded guilty to dealing methamphetamine and received a four-year prison sentence.

Kirsten E. Holland(Photo: Supplied)

Woman serves her time

Kirsten E. Holland, 26, of the 200 block of South 12th Street was released Tuesday from the Wayne County Jail after fulfilling her sentences for possession of a narcotic drug, prostitution and resisting law enforcement.

Holland pleaded guilty to the Level 6 felony, which was a lesser-included offense to the original charge of Level 5 felony dealing a narcotic drug. As stipulated in her plea agreement, Holland was sentenced to one year of incarceration with that sentence ordered to be served consecutively to a 20-day sentence for prostitution and resisting law enforcement that already had been issued.

She was credited with 205 days of time served and 205 good-time days, which fulfilled the sentences.

Holland was accused of taking $100 from a Wayne County Drug Task Force confidential informant and providing a bag of heroin capsules last May, according to an affidavit of probable cause. A sealed warrant was issued for her arrest.

She was taken into custody in August during a task force prostitution investigation and charged with the dealing warrant, prostitution and resisting law enforcement.

An affidavit of probable cause said Holland approached an undercover officer's vehicle and agreed to perform a sex act for money. When the officer identified himself after driving to Freeman Park, Holland ran from the vehicle and was stopped by other task force officers.